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Let Percona Actively Manage Your Databases To Achieve Peak Performance
Data drives every aspect of your business so your databases need to deliver optimum performance and availability to keep you competitive. A business requires 24x7x365 database coverage. Keeping your...
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Blog Poll: Who Chooses Your Database Technology?
It’s that time again – a new blog poll! This time around, we’re interested in hearing who chooses your database technology. Is it DBAs? Management? Here’s the question: Who Chooses the Database...
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Don’t Use MongoDB Profiling Level 1
TLDR: It is not profile level 1 that is the problem; it’s a gotcha with the optional ‘slowms’ argument that causes users to accidentally set verbose logging and fill their disk with log files. In...
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PMM 2.1, MongoDB Hot Backups, Percona Server Updates: Release Roundup 11/18/2019
It’s release roundup time here at Percona! As mentioned a few weeks ago, we are now publishing release roundups comprising all the details and information you need on the previous week (or two)’s...
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Installing MySQL with Docker
I often need to install a certain version of MySQL, MariaDB, or Percona Server for MySQL to run some experiments, whether to check for behavior differences or to provide tested instructions. In this...
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Proposal for Global Indexes in PostgreSQL
A global index, by very definition, is a single index on the parent table that maps to many underlying table partitions. The parent table itself does not have a single, unified underlying store so it...
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Profiling Software Using perf and Flame Graphs
In this blog post, we will see how to use perf (a.k.a.: perf_events) together with Flame Graphs. They are used to generate a graphical representation of what functions are being called within our...
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Tips for Designing Grafana Dashboards
As Grafana powers our star product – Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) – we have developed a lot of experience creating Grafana Dashboards over the last few years. In this article, I will share...
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UUIDs are Popular, but Bad for Performance — Let’s Discuss
If you do a quick web search about UUIDs and MySQL, you’ll get a fair number of results. Here are just a few examples: Storing UUID and Generated Columns Storing UUID Values in MySQL Illustrating...
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Comparing S3 Streaming Tools with Percona XtraBackup
Making backups over the network can be done in two ways: either save on disk and transfer or just transfer without saving. Both ways have their strong and weak points. The second way, particularly, is...
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Running PMM1 and PMM2 Clients on the Same Host
Want to try out Percona Monitoring and Management 2 (PMM 2) but you’re not ready to turn off your PMM 1 environment? This blog is for you! Keep in mind that the methods described are not intended to...
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Percona XtraBackup 8.0.8, Percona Server for MongoDB 3.6.15-3.5: Release...
It’s release roundup time here at Percona! Today’s release post encompasses Percona releases from November 19, 2019 – December 2, 2019. Every few weeks, each roundup showcases the latest in software...
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Webinar 12/5: Introduction to MySQL Query Tuning for DevOps
MySQL does its best to return requested bytes as fast as possible. However, it needs human help to identify what is important and should be accessed in the first place. Queries, written smartly, can...
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Percona Live 2020: Call For Papers
The Call For Papers (CFP) for Percona Live 2020 is now open! Percona Live will be held in Austin, Texas from Monday, May 18 through Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at a new venue, the AT&T Hotel and...
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PostgreSQL 12 Improvement: Benign Log Entries “Incomplete Startup Packet”
There is a less-talked-about improvement in PostgreSQL 12 which can greatly reduce the benign log entries. This patch is probably one of the smallest in PostgreSQL 12. The commit message says:Don't log...
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Ensure Your Database Infrastructure Supports New Year Revenue Goals
Technology is the great enabler for all modern business growth, and databases of some sort or another underpin all modern business technology. Database technology is the infrastructure upon which...
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MySQL Encryption: Talking About Keyrings
It has been possible to enable Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) in Percona Server for MySQL/MySQL for a while now, but have you ever wondered how it works under the hood and what kind of implications...
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Open Source: What You Do Today Impacts Billions of People
If you work in open source, we’re going to bet you may not know that what you do every day affects a billion people. Surprised? You shouldn’t be! In fact, that number is most likely even larger than...
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Webinar 12/19: Top 3 Features of MySQL
MySQL has been ranked as the second most popular database since 2012 according to DB-Engines. Three features help it retain its top position: replication, storage engines, and NoSQL support. During...
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Percona Backup for MongoDB in Action
We recently released Percona Backup for MongoDB(PBM) as GA. It’s our open source tool for taking a consistent backup of a running standalone mongod instance, a Replica Set, or a Sharded Cluster as...
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